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Prevent Google, Bing And Yahoo From Tracking Your Clicks
2:05AM Kevin Purdy | Every time you click results in Google, Yahoo or Bing, a special URL tracks your click—and makes it annoying to copy and paste. The CyberNet blog runs down click-track-preventing tools for all three search engines. More »
Design
ZapBing Rotates Your Desktop Wallpaper With High Quality Bing Images
6:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: If you’re a fan of the high quality photographs regularly rotating on the Bing homepage, free application ZapBing brings a rotating lineup of those images to your desktop wallpaper. More »
Work
Decide Which Search Engine You Really Prefer
7:00AM Rosa Golijan | Unable to choose between Google and Bing? That’s OK—these three mashups display results from both search engines in handy side-by-side frames and make life simpler for the indecisive. More »
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Blind Search Reveals Which Engine You Really Prefer
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | If you saw blind results for your search terms from Google, Bing and pre-Bing-partnership Yahoo, would you always choose Google? The Blind Search site lets you take a blind taste test of all three search engines and pick your winner. More »
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9:54AM Angus Kidman | Microsoft’s latest addition to the local version of its Bing search engine is “hot spots” offering trivia about its background image. So why did New York get highlighted on the first day? More »
Bing Hotspots Still Have That Yankee Feel
9:54AM Angus Kidman | Microsoft’s latest addition to the local version of its Bing search engine is “hot spots” offering trivia about its background image. So why did New York get highlighted on the first day? More »
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11:00AM Angus Kidman | One of the alleged selling points for Microsoft’s Bing search engine is more relevant results, so adding in recent posts from Twitter is an obvious thing to do. More »
Bing Adds Some Twitter To Search Results
11:00AM Angus Kidman | One of the alleged selling points for Microsoft’s Bing search engine is more relevant results, so adding in recent posts from Twitter is an obvious thing to do. More »
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Study Suggests Eyeballs Like Bing, But Google’s Familiar
12:30AM Kevin Purdy | A usability research firm, the Catalyst Group, performed one of those amazingly geeky (and neat) eyeball tracking studies on 12 people conducting searches. The results, combined with a survey, suggest that while Bing won out in layout, design and filtering, and drew more eyes to the top (i.e. sponsored results), Google familiarity and relevance kept it a favourite of three-fourths of users. [via TechCrunch]
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12:30PM Angus Kidman | The limited search capabilities on Bing Maps, Microsoft’s web map system, might make it look like a poor cousin to Google, but it does have one interesting feature the Big G lacks — a bird’s-eye view of selected Australian cities. More »
Bing Maps Birds Eye View Gives Different Perspective
12:30PM Angus Kidman | The limited search capabilities on Bing Maps, Microsoft’s web map system, might make it look like a poor cousin to Google, but it does have one interesting feature the Big G lacks — a bird’s-eye view of selected Australian cities. More »
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2:30PM Angus Kidman | Another feature to add to the list of options Australia isn’t getting yet with Microsoft’s Bing search engine: decent mobile phone support. More »
Mobile Bing Lacks Aussie Zing
2:30PM Angus Kidman | Another feature to add to the list of options Australia isn’t getting yet with Microsoft’s Bing search engine: decent mobile phone support. More »
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